Author: Kim Stitzel, MS, RD, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Preview: People who received blood pressure treatment in low-income areas were half as likely to control their blood pressure as people treated in higher-income areas, according to a new analysis of research trial data.
Author: Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M., FACC, FAHA, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University
Preview: People whose cholesterol-lowering drug prescriptions are rejected or abandoned are more likely to have heart events than those whose prescriptions are covered. That’s the finding of a study published today in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Author: Raina M. Merchant, M.D., M.S.H.P., FAHA; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Preview: White children in prosperous neighborhoods are more likely to get bystander CPR than black children in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to data published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Author: Kim Stitzel, M.S., R.D., Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Preview: Now we can drill down to understand how life expectancy varies neighborhood by neighborhood, thanks to an effort that calculates life expectancy at birth for nearly every U.S. census tract.